Motivational Quotes

Work

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

- Gillis, Dobie

Best Quotes about Work

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Diller, Phyllis

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.

Fitch, Fred W.

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Miyazawa, Kiichi

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Men have become the tools of their trade.

Thoreau, Henry David

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Drucker, Peter F.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

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You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.

Parkinson, Joseph

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I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Robinson, David

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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

Gorky, Maxim

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If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research proves it is--then they have to join women's fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.

Mckenna, Elizabeth Perle

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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Paterno, Joe

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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Riley, Pat

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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

Parkinson, C. Northcote

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.

Bible

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

33.

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.

Caddy, Eileen

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

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At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them.

Daniel Akst

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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

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My work is a game -- a very serious game.

Escher, M. C.

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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Auden, W. H.

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No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Pavlova, Anna

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Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire